Some interesting bits (Us and Them Edition)

• Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking -- there's every reason to expect that they'd want to pillage the earth just as we have...
  
  
• Tea-bag protests through the lens of white privilege -- would we really be as calm about all this rhetoric if it were crowds of black/brown/scary folks shaking their fists?
  
  
• "I just don't like kids" is not that uncommon a position, but it's hard to look at it the same way after reading this discussion classing that stance as bigotry (be sure to read the comments, which is where the real peeling back of the language happens)...